Modelling Mean and Turbulence Fields in the Dry Convective Boundary Layer with the Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux Approach |
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Authors: | Peter Hurley |
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Institution: | (1) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, PMB #1, Aspendale, VIC, 3195, Australia |
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Abstract: | The treatment of turbulence closure in atmospheric models is examined in the context of the dry convective boundary layer
(CBL) and the eddy-diffusivity/mass-flux (EDMF) approach. The EDMF approach is implemented into a model called TAPM to use
a coupled two-equation prognostic turbulence closure and the mass-flux approach to represent turbulence in the CBL. This work
also extends the range of turbulence variables that can be derived from the mass-flux component of the model and uses these
along with their values from the prognostic scheme to provide total turbulence fields that can be used to compare to data
and/or to feed into other components of TAPM, including those needed to drive Eulerian and Lagrangian air pollution dispersion
modules. Model results are presented for the afternoon of a simulated summer day and are compared to both laboratory and field
observations in a mixed-layer scaled framework. The results show that the EDMF approach works well within TAPM and can provide
good predictions of mean and turbulence fields, including in the upper levels of the CBL. The EDMF approach has several attractive
features, including the potential to be one approach to unify the treatment of turbulence and dry and moist convection in
atmospheric models. |
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Keywords: | Convection Convective boundary layer EDMF TAPM Turbulence |
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